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Dakota Adams is running for House District 1
I have been a Montana resident since 2011, and of Lincoln County specifically since 2014, when my family moved to Trego ahead of the looming apocalypse. The coming end has not yet arrived and, fortunately, I am still here.
I am the estranged eldest son of Oathkeepers’ founder and January 6th Insurrection ringleader Elemer Stewart Rhodes. I spent my childhood deeply immersed in the Patriot movement.
Since moving to Lincoln County, I entered adulthood by joining my rural volunteer fire department, started work in wildland fire and eventually construction, and built a life outside the militia sphere. I found positive role models who lived every day the ideals of civil service, community responsibility, and dependability in a crisis that had been repeated as empty phrases by militia and extremist leaders, my father included, all my life.
This was the first step in a long journey in changing my beliefs, and finding new positions that better fit that still and quiet inner sense of right and wrong than the ideology I was raised to fight and die for.
Now, as a full-time drywall worker, part-time student, and wholly committed citizen, I have decided that if I want to live in a nation where politicians treat their jobs as a serious community service responsibility I have no choice but to do it myself.
I ask for the opportunity to work for the people of Lincoln County's House District 1 and take a platform to Helena designed for the sole purpose of fighting for the ordinary people of this state:
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Reversing the Legislature's disastrous property tax policy, which is imperiling families who have owned their land in this area for a hundred years to the benefit of transplanted elites and corporations.
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Defending the Inalienable Rights of all Montanans, which are under relentless attack from every angle under the guise of flashy Culture War issues and by powerful special interests.
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Building a future for working people in the Last Best Place, an economy that can stand strong despite the changing winds of housing and stock markets and protection for the working people of this great state against predatory Big Business and Big Government alike.
Above all, I pretend to be nothing except what I am. The Dakota Adams in your driveway or your community center this year will be the Dakota Adams you get on election day and for the duration of my service for the people. The Republican Party has failed this state, and I ask humbly for the job of repairing that failure and building a foundation for the freedom and prosperity of future generations of Montanans.
For the Republic.
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